NSK all the way.
Spazz, Minor Threat, Rancid, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, NOFX, The Specials, The Slackers, The Scofflaws, Green Day, Bill Halley and The Comets, Frank Sinatra, Man...or Astroman?, Dick Dale, Run D.M.C., The Skatalites, John Williams, The Ventures, Hepcat, The Wu-Tang Clan, Pennywise, The Casualties, Elvis, The Dropkick Murphys, Sham 69, Doom, The Descendants, Screeching Weasel, Primus, Colonel Les Claypool's flying frog Brigade, The Misfits, Shutout, and pretty much anything else that doesn't suck.
Star Wars, Office Space, Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead, Dead Alive, Shaun of the Dead, Shawshank Redemption, Shaolin V. Wutang, The Five Deadly Venoms, Iron Monkey, Midnight Run, Saving Private Ryan, Hot Fuzz, Transformers, Shaolin Master Killer, Enter the Dragon, C.H.U.D., Dumb and Dumber, Apocalypse Now.
The Simpsons, Law and Order, Seinfeld,Avatar the Last Airbender, The Military Channel, Spaced, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, anything that was made in Japan in the late 70's or early 80's that had giant robots in it.
Starship Troopers and everything by Heinlien, The GI's war, D-Day, The Long Walk, Blood Crazy, Relic, The New Jedi Order, Tom Clancy, Still Life with Crows and all those Pendergrast books.I also enjoy the occasional classic, such as The Art of War by Sun Tzu, or Dante's Inferno.